History Recap / GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera

* BiTheWay: Gabe makes out with his puppets at the end of the episode, only one of them was "female."
** Mabel even says she dodged a bullet there with Gabe.

** Adding with a bit of RealityEnsues, when Bill was hurting Dipper's body ForTheEvulz, it came back to bite him when the damage with Dipper's sleep deprivation weakened him to where he was expelled from the body.
* LogicalWeakness: As Mabel points out, since Bill is in Dipper's body, he's only as strong as Dipper, and he's gone for days without any sleep. It also didn't help that Bill put Dipper's body through a lot of abuse ForTheEvulz earlier.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: By outright refusing to help Dipper with the laptop, Mabel is basically, indirectly responsible for the laptop's destruction and Bill taking over her brother's body.

* SenseFreak: Bill, once in control of Dipper's body, gets a blast out of the sensations he feels- specifically, pain, and goes out of his way to hurt himself. ("Woo!" Slap! "Woo! Pain is hilarious!")

** As mentioned above, after Bill possessing Dipper's body and begin to hurt himself, in both out of morbid curiosity and to spite him finally caught up after being in a sleep deprived 12 year old boy's body.

** When Dipper tries to point out that Mabel is getting obsessed with the puppet show, she calls him on being obsessed with solving the mysteries of Gravity Falls that she notices it starts to take a toll on both his mental health and more visibly, his physical health, which was something Mabel had warned Dipper earlier in this episode.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bill deliberately self-harms whilst in Dipper's body due to the sheer euphoria of experiencing Human senses. He seems to [[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy himself] at first, but it comes back to bite him in the climax.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Bill deliberately self-harms whilst in Dipper's body due to the sheer euphoria of experiencing Human senses. He seems to [[[TooKinkyToTorture enjoy himself]] at first, but it comes back to bite him in the climax.

** We do, however, find a physical clue in the laptop's remains, so it's not ''all'' for naught.

** We do, however, find a physical clue in the laptop's remains; [[spoiler: McGuckett Labs]].

--> '''Candy:''' (In Korean) Wait, Gabe! Candy still loves you!\\

* SenseFreak: Bill, once in control of Dipper's body, gets a blast out of the sensations he feels- specifically, pain, and goes out of his way to hurt himself. ("Woo!" Slap! "Woo! Pain is hilarious!")

** The way Mabel says "I'm Puppet Stan" sounds very similar to Stan's altered voice in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E14BottomlessPit Voice Over]]".

* AllForNothing / ShootTheShaggyDog: Two episodes after it was introduced, the laptop reappears... only for Bill to smash it once after gaining control of Dipper's body. [[spoiler: Subverted in the next episode, when the laptop reveals another clue to finding the author.]]

* AllForNothing / ShootTheShaggyDog: Two episodes after it was introduced, the laptop reappears... only for Bill to smash it once after gaining control of Dipper's body.

* ExactWords: Dipper should ''really'' have given more thought to Bill's request for "a puppet".

* AllForNothing / ShootTheShaggyDog: Two episodes after it was introduced, the laptop reappears... only for Bill to smash it once after gaining control of Dipper's body. [[spoiler: Subverted when the laptop reveals an important lead: [=McGucket=] ]].

* AllForNothing / ShootTheShaggyDog: Two episodes after it was introduced, the laptop reappears... only for Bill to smash it once after gaining control of Dipper's body. [[spoiler: Subverted when the laptop reveals an important lead: McGucket]].

* AllForNothing / ShootTheShaggyDog: Two episodes after it was introduced, the laptop reappears... only for Bill to smash it once after gaining control of Dipper's body.

* BiTheWay: Gabe makes out with his puppets at the end of the episode, only one of them was "female."

* ConcertClimax: Mabel's big puppet show, ''Glove Story: A [[TitleDrop Sock Opera]]'' serves as this.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Mabel is having a hard time taking Dipper possessing his sock puppet self seriously because of how silly he looks when mad, at which point Dipper pulls off the a perfect angry [[TheMuppets Kermit]] face while comically growling in frustration.

* VaguenessIsComing: Similar to his last appearance, Bill Cipher announces "big things are coming" before he flees. The only thing new we learn this time is that he will be in some way responsible.

** When Dipper tries to point out that Mabel is getting obsessed with the puppet show, she calls him on being obsessed with solving the mysteries of Gravity Falls that she notices it starts to take a toll on both his mental and visibly physical health.

* HeyItsThatGuy: It was revealed on Tumblr that Puppet!Old Man [=McGucket=] was manipulated by [[HomestarRunner Matt Chapman]].

* TooKinkyToTorture: When Bill Cipher possesses Dipper's body, he enjoys being in a physical body so much that he enjoys inflicting pain on himself, including slapping himself, tumbling down the stairs, smash his arm in a drawer and stick himself with forks. When Dipper later gets his body back, it's revealed that Bill hurt his body so much that he [[AndIMustScream feels the need to go to a hospital.]]